The Stress Analysis of Cracks Handbook

In a convenient hardcover format this extensive source of crack stress analysis has been brought up-to-date with the addition of 150 new pages of analysis and information. The book is an excellent reference, as well as a text for in-house training courses, in various industrial and academic settings. CONTENTS INCLUDE: Introductory Information: Crack-tip stress fields for linear-elastics bodies Alternate expressions for crack-tip elastic fields Energy rate analysis of crack extension Stress analysis results for common test specimen configurations: The center cracked test specimen The single edge notch test specimen Other common specimen configurations Two-dimensional stress solutions for various configurations with cracks: A finite crack in an infinite plane A periodic array of cracks in an infinite plane Opposing parallel semi-infinite cracks in an infinite plane A semi-infinite crack parallel to edges of an infinite strip Three-dimensional cracked configurations: An embedded circular crack in an infinite body A half-circular surface crack in a semi-infinite body Strip yield model solutions: Three-dimensional strip yielding solutions A circumferential crack in a cylindrical shell A crack in a spherical shell

List of Symbols viii Foreword by G. R. Irwin xvi Preface - Third Edition xvii Preface - Second Edition xviii Preface - First Edition xix Acknowledgments to the First Edition xx Part I Introductory Information 1 Part II Stress Analysis Results for Common Test Specimen Configurations 39 Part III Two-Dimensional Stress Solutions for Various Configurations with Cracks 81 Part IV Three-Dimensional Cracked Configurations 333 Part V Crack(s) in a Rod or a Plate by Energy Rate Analysis 415 Part VI Strip Yield Model Solutions 431 Part VII Crack(s) in a Shell 469 Appendices A. Compliance Calibration Methods 487 B. A Method for Computing Certain Displacements Relevant to Crack Problems 493 C. The Weight Function Method for Determining Stress Intensity Factors 497 D. Anisotropic Linear-Elastic Crack-Tip Stress Field 513 E. Stress Intensity Factors for Cracks in a Plate Subjected to Pinching Loads 515 F. Cracks in Residual Stress Fields 529 G. Westergaard Stress Functions for Dislocations and Cracks 547 H. The Plastic Zone Instability Concept Applied to Analysis of Pressure Vessel Failure 581 I. Approximations and Engineering Estimates of Stress Intensity Factors 593 J. Rice's J-Integral as an Analytical Tool in Stress Analysis 611 K. Elasto-Plastic Pure Shear Stress Stfain Analysis (Mode III) 623 L. Table of Complete Elliptic Integrals 635 M. Table and Properties of Genoa Function 637 References 641 Reference Index 663 Subject Index 667 Free Software (SmartCrack-Lite) 676 Software Guide 677